[godzookie2k]

there are a pile of issues regarding illustrator and os 10.2.x Try downloading the latest 10.0.3 updater for illustrator rom versiontracker, that might solve the issue irc.

[curtlivingston]

i had that problem, but as i had upgraded to 10.2 only a couple of days previously, i cleaned my system out and re-installed everything again from scratch on a zeroed hard drive and everything has been fine since.

(it wasn't just illustrator for me - photoshop and indesign had the shift problem too, in that the hand would appear when i pressed shift, but would disappear as soon as i moved the mouse even a small fraction)

[godzookie2k]

the entire adobe publishing software line was updated in the weeks following jag, so have you updated them, and jag, yet?

[chris.p]

ive just lost the contrain- ilustrator 10.03 jag, etc all working fine. now (in the last few hrs, its all gone wrong. the only thing ive done is install unsanity's labelsx. ill let you know if this is the problem

[chris v]

I had a lot of key commands suddenly go south in Photoshop yesterday, and a log out/in straightened it out. Worked pretty hard for about four hours last night with no more problems. This has been all over the Adobe forums, too.

CV

[art_director]

was that in os x or os 9 or classic?

[bobvila]

It first occured in OS X 10.2 with Illustrator 10.0.3, but since has happened sporadically. Currently, the shift key works fine. I did not have the problem in Photoshop.

[godzookie2k]

iirc, adobe said that for when the key modifiers go south in osx, its because the file permissions have gone screwy. There is a 'repair file permissions' under disk utility or you can boot into console mode and run a few fscks. both will fix the problem.

[chris.p]

why does x modify permissions on the fly? seems there are quite a few issues to do with this- the whole deal seems odd.iirc my shift/constrain went while using illustrator- (same session) why?? btw, a log out fixed my problem with it. nothing to do with labelsx, as i mentioned above.